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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Osho on June 23, 2006, 11:08:21 am
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Hi,
I was wondering if someone could please tell me how can I convert an entire library of APE to FLAC format? Ideally, I would like a automated process rather than a manual one per each track.
Thanks much,
Osho
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Use MC11.1 with scthom's FLAC plugins (encoder & decoder). MC has a file converter (select all > Library Tools > Convert Format...). As always, backup the library and the files you are going change first.
Do you need to know something else?
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Use MC11.1 with scthom's FLAC plugins (encoder & decoder). MC has a file converter (select all > Library Tools > Convert Format...). As always, backup the library and the files you are going change first.
Do you need to know something else?
Nope, that sounds great!! Thanks a lot.
Osho
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I'd read this (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=34216.0) before embarking on such a project.
Ideally you need a way to verify that the conversion went through ok, as in the wavs produced by the previous APE and the new FLAC are identical.
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I was the original poster of that warning thread ;D
After some detailed manually analysis (using FooBar2000 across a bunch of random files and listening to a lot my library), I discovered that the problem was a lot less severe than I had originally thought. There were only 2 or 3 albums that got messed up, due to a hardware issue when I was ripping while also converting. This was then compounded by buggy audio driver that was causing skips in the S/PDIF output, leading me to suspect that the files themselves were messed up.
All is well now, and while I may have liked some sort of verification step to confirm that things went 100% according to plan, the end result was still quite positive. FLAC is definitely the way to go - no disrespect to the monkey - in the abstract it's a great format, but it's just not as widely supported.